Republicans: The Ripon Report

Of all the agonizing Republican
reappraisals of the 1964 elections, by far the best documented and most
out spoken is that of the Ripon Society, a group of some 80 young
G.O.P. intellectuals, mostly from academic circles, who aspire, as one
leader describes it. "to be a link between the ivory-tower group and
the people ringing doorbells." In a recently issued report, the society
said that the Republican presidential campaign was "one of the dullest,
emptiest, lowest-level campaigns in the history of American
presidential politics. The whole cast of the Republican effort...